Boat - Any Navy vessel, regardless of size. A pilot's own Carrier is THE Boat.

Bogie - Unknown radar contact

Bolter - A carrier landing in which the pilot fails to engage the landing tractor beams, resulting in a complete fly-through of the deck.

Booming - Loud, raucous partying

BOREX - A dull repetative exercise (Also: SWEATEX for a busy, tense exercse and LEAPEX for a pointless exercise whose immediacy is demanded by one's superiors)

Bought the Farm - Died. Originated from the early days of flight on Earth, where the life insurance payouts for the deaths of young pilots commonly served to pay off the mortage on their parents' property.

Brain Housing Group - Mock-Technical Term for the head.

Brass - High Ranking Officer

Bravo Zulu - Praise for a good job

Bugging Out - Disengaging.

Burner - Afterburner. A system which dumps fuel directly into the engine exhaust, greatly increasing speed and fuel consumption.

Bust - To break a regulation

Charlie Foxtrot - Clusterfuck. A complete disaster.

Cherry (also Nugget) - A pilot on his or her first combat tour

Chicken Switch - Button which activates the ejection system

Contact - Engagement with the enemy.

Dash Two (Three, Four, Etc) - The second (or other numbered) spacecraft in a formation.

Delta Sierra - Dumb Shit. Used to indicate a stupid action

Dot - Refers to a spacecraft far enough out it is only visible by its radar signature. "I'm a dot" means "I'm out of here"

Driver - Pilot

Dursateel Shower - Debris produced by an exploding fighter craft

Earned the Wooden Cross - Died. From the old Earth practice of burying battlefield dead under simple wooden crosses, and the large number of medals named the <something> Cross.